Hmm...[ponders]...WHY is it that we DO, by Leftist lights, have the “moral obligation” to take millions of “refugees” regardless of their intentions...but we DO NOT by the same reckoning have any “right to impose our western ideologies on other countries?”
Good Question!
I just sat through a sermon at church this morning that enjoined us to be merciful and welcoming to all sinners — even politicians — and immigrants. I can’t buy it.
This nation has restricted immigration since Colonial days. Catholics, for instance, were not welcome in any Colony other than Maryland. Chinese were prohibited after the transcontinental RR was finished. My husband’s grandmother was prohibited from joining her husband here from Italy until she could prove her health — a 3-4 year process in 1914. Japanese residents and citizens were interned unless they volunteered for the military during WWII. Iranians were prohibited by Jimmy Carter during the hostage crisis. As late as the 1970s and ‘80s Australians had a strict quota placed upon them in retaliation for Aussie quotas against Americans. Indian friends, who belong to my church, were prevented from getting visas for their young adult children for 10 years. The daughter (who just got in) went to college in Australia, and the son is not here yet. BTW, the family is not complaining. They are grateful to be reunited with the daughter, finally.
But, suddenly we are supposed to give carte blanche to the Muslims.
What is wrong with enforcing our borders? That is what borders are for.
I would rather have everyone required to have, and be proficient with a M4 than have everyone required to be disarmed.